NATURE NOTES III. [Author SIGNED copy.**] Hardcover - 2001

UK,landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED Bookplate,1st edn. FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn, but author's neat,handwritten,blue ink signature, without dedication,to a 'THE TIMES' bookplate,pasted to ffe,and price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,colour pictorial cartoon artwork,by Peter Brookes,illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - one tiny,tiny snick to upper wrap's bottom edge - else unaffected and fine.Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight and clean also - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Dw/dj's design/illustration repeated to paper-covered boards with b/w letters to spine/backstrip and black endpapers.UK,landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj, author SIGNED,1st edn,6-112pp [paginated] includes 54 full-page,full-colour political cartoons collected from 'THE TIMES' (a UK newspaper) from July,1999 to June,2001 - all by Peter Brookes,text on opposite pages; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and dedication. Following the success of Nature Notes,the first two collections of his award-winning cartoons for 'The Times' newspaper on Saturdays,Peter Brookes now presents a third selection of brilliantly executed drawings of the people and stories that make the headlines. Covering two years of New Labour government since 1999 including the landslide victory at the General Election in June 2001,'Nature Notes III' shows how the great and the good might look as small,feathered or furry,or large and pachyderm, with Deputy Prime minister John Prescott as both an Unhappypotamus and a Rail - 'a bird that travels nowhere,fast' - William Hague as a MORI eel 'on the rocks' on the Blackpool shoreline at party conference time; Prime Minister 'Tony' Darwin's Theory of Devolution ('he denied he was attacking God's work because,after all,he was God'). Here also are hilariously acute insights into the top international news events of the last two years, from the Pond Life of Europe - a guide to the depth of Anglo-French understanding ('In Veto Fertilization - the dominant partner holds its mate firmly in its grip. Will not take "non" for an answer) - to the riches of the US presidential election with its Allitigator ('thick-skinned and lethal,this charmer thrives in the legal quagmire that is Florida') and Birds of America - your cut-out-and-keep guide to the high flyers,including former President Clinton as a hornbill ('often flies undone'); Texas woodpecker George W. Bush (Thickasa bricka); and the pregnant chadfinch.From political intrigue and scandal to crises of state abroad, Peter Brookes' dazzling portraits represent a uniquely individual and perceptive view of those who inhabit the corridors of power. Brookes is particularly noted for his "Nature Notes" series of cartoons,begun in February 1996,which portray various fictitious beasts,based on the appearance (and supposed habits) of well-known politicians.He has noted that a benefit of using animal images is that he can show his subjects doing things that,for reasons of decency,could not be published if they were portrayed as human.Brookes said: "you are able to depict crap and fornication and that sort of thing".During the coalition government in 2010, he began a notable series of cartoons known as the "Westminster Academy",which depicted Nick Clegg as a public school fag to a red cheeked David Cameron, who was portrayed as a prefect dressed in an Eton suit and Union Jack waistcoat,with Boris Johnson and George Osborne also appearing in some cartoons as his cronies. During this period also,he depicted leader of the opposition Ed Miliband and shadow Chancellor Ed Balls as Wallace and Gromit.[Wiki.] Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight and the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **